2009 Events1) The IRCS hosted the following panel at the
2009 ALA Conference in Boston, May 21-24:Teaching and Talking About Raymond
Carver
Organized by the International Raymond Carver Society
Chair: Angela Sorby, Marquette University
Panelists:
1. "Race in Raymond Carver's
Short Stories," Vanessa Hall, New York City
College of Technology/CUNY
2. “Teaching Carver’s Poetry
for Foreign Language Students,” Sandra L.
Kleppe, University of Tromsø, Norway
3. “"Teaching ‘Tell the
Women We're Going’ and
‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,’” Robert Waxler, University
of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Saturday June 7th, 2008
At Hôtel Massa
Société des Gens de Lettres
38 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques
75014 Paris
10.00 am-1.00pm Workshop
Françoise Sammarcelli, (Université de Paris IV, France)
“’Why would I want a picture of this tragedy?’: the Inscription of the
Eye in What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.”
Laetitia Naly (Université de Paris III, France) “Celebrating the
moment: the writing of time in Raymond Carver’s ‘TheCalm’”
Philippe Romon (journalist and author, France) "A reading of some
letters from the Gordon Lish and Raymond Carver archives"
Claire Fabre-Clark, (Université Paris XII, France) “Excess
and lack : the economy of signs in Carver”

Sunday June 8th, 2008
At 229 rue de Paris
91120 Palaiseau
10 am-12 pm
General meeting of the IRCS
Meeting of the Editorial Committee
Discussion about the 2009 Symposium

2) The
International Raymond Carver Society is an affiliated
organization of the American Literature Association and we sponsor
sessions every year at their annual conference, which rotates between
East and West Coast venues. The 2008
ALA conference is in San Francisco, May 22-25.

3) The
International Raymond Carver Society hosted a panel at the 2008
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, November 13-16, on "Infamous Incidents in the Life/Works of
Raymond Carver".

2007 EVENTS....1) The
International Raymond Carver Society organized a
two-day Symposium
during the same week as (but not connected to) the MLA in Chicago,
December
28-29.
VENUE: PALMER HOUSE HILTON, CHICAGO
December 28:"Raymond Carver in
International Contexts" roundtableHighlight from the roundtable: Randolph Runyon and Libe
García Zarranz
mesmerised by the other speakers

Raymond Carver: Open
PanelDecember
29:
Business
MeetingThe
IRCS held a joint meeting of the officers, advisory board, and
members at large. The minutes will be posted in our Archive.

Note: The IRCS is affiliated with the American Literature Association
and has a permanent presence at their annual conference. The next Call
for Papers, for the 2009 conference in Boston, will be published
in the autumn of 2008.